Assisted Dying: how MPs voted and what it tells us about ‘cross-party consensus’
The majority of Conservative MPs voted against (an 80/20 split, so a score of 0.60), along with most of the independents who voted, and the majority of the MPs from Northern Ireland (the DUP’s 1.0 score mirroring the Greens). And the SNP abstained en bloc.
As Parliament debated the merits of enabling sociopaths to coerce the vulnerable into a premature death, a peculiar little ...
MPs have voted to allow terminally ill adults to be provided with assistance to end their own life. The vote does not mean ...
There was also a Bill proposed in the House of Lords during the 2021/2022 session which reached a second reading in the ...
High profile supporters of legalising assisted dying include Dame Esther Rantzen who is terminally ill and has pleaded with the public to write to their MPs to ask for “the right to choose ...
The Labour MP who has put forward historic proposals to legalise assisted dying has told MPs they have a “duty to fix things that aren’t right”. Kim Leadbeater said “even with the best ...
The assisted dying Bill will be published earlier than expected amid concerns that MPs will not have enough time to consider proposals before voting. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater will publish the ...
Labour MP Kim Leadbeater is putting forward the bill and said "now is the time" to hold a fresh debate on assisted dying, after MPs rejected a bill on the issue in 2015. Prime Minister Sir Keir ...
MPs will vote on Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying Bill on November 29. If passed by parliament, the legislation would make it legal to help a terminally ill person with less than six ...
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